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This Wednesday, two deportation charter flights will leave from Germany. This time it is to Pakistan and Afghanistan, next time it is to other places. Even one deportation is unacceptable and deportations happen all the time: any morning, our friends could be taken from their beds by police, locked in detention centers and forced on planes against their will.

As this is another example that the German state is escalating their deportation efforts, we will come out in the streets and make our anger loud and clear: Freedom of Movement is Everybody’s Right! We Are Here and We Will FIGHT!

STOP DEPORTATIONS NOW!

Wednesday 06.12. 18.00

Oranienplatz (U8/1 Kottbusser Tor)

Let us make sure that the state is not getting away with this while we are silent and that there are consequences to their actions.

We are 2 of the many people that are faced with rejection of our asylum claim. We are from Pakistan and many of our friends are being taken out of their beds by the police in the morning and forced on planes to Pakistan against their will. We are making a stand against ALL deportations and for a fair and just asylum procedure. Therefore we will protest against this inhumane treatment and call for:

German asylum practices
During only the first six months of 2017, 11.247 Pakistanis received a rejection of their asylum claim in Germany. This creates an atmosphere of fear and despair within the community. In 2016, more than 6000 persons with Pakistani nationality left Germany. Many of them were put on airplanes to Pakistan or other EU member states. Many others were pushed to take a “voluntary” decision of leaving.

Since 2010, the readmission agreement between Pakistan and the EU has come into effect, which makes it easier to get rid of “unwanted persons” by cooperating, among other by giving access to databases for the confirmation of identities as well as passport substitution for carrying out deportations.

In Berlin, deportation attempts were reported to have taken place before the obligation to leave the country was communicated. Officials who carry out deportations have lately been appearing in civil clothing which makes it possible for them to act even more unexpectedly. Deportations have officially been happening unannounced since the asylum law tightenings of 2015. New laws, such as the “Gesetz zur besseren Durchsetzung der Ausreisepflicht” (29.07.2016), allow for even more state control and violence.

Why Pakistan is not safe
After deportation, people face charges due to Pakistan’s immigration laws and go to jail. The Pakistani government’s Emigration Ordinance of 1979 foresees prison sentences of up to five years for nationals that violate provisions of the ordinance when emigrating or exiting the country.

– Stop legitimization of racism in asylum practices and in our accommodation centers!

– Stop all deportations!

Our stories: we are two refugees from Pakistan and we are in Berlin. These are our stories:

Usman
My name is Usman. I am from Pakistan which I left in 2015. My nose is broken, my hand is burned and my body has suffered from several cuts. I cannot hear from one ear. All those injuries were caused by the Pakistani begging mafia. Like many others, I was kidnapped as a child by this mafia that forced me to beg in the streets. They hurt me and inflicted these visible injuries in order to optimize my chances to earn money for them. I was taken across the country and forced to beg in nearly every city. When I tried to resist they punished me by beating me up. Some hostages were killed after trying to escape. I have no education and neither have I learned to read nor write.

After approximately 13 years, another hostage helped me to escape which we managed to do somewhere in the Punjab region. The two of us eventually entered Europe from Turkey to Greece where we were put in an orphanage. Soon thereafter, we joined a bigger group of refugees who were walking northwards and then I reached Germany. Now I live in Berlin as an asylum seeker. At some point I heard about a Pakistani community playing cricket in Tempelhof. I went there to play with them and met some people from the Stop Deportation Group which I am now a part of. I have found support in the group, among other for the attempt to find my family in Pakistan.

My claim for asylum has been rejected, and the German authorities are trying to deport me. I am kindly asking for understanding of my situation. How am I supposed to return to Pakistan where I do not have any connections? Neither do I know where I am from nor who my family is. My friends and network, with whom I am associated are here in Berlin where I want to stay.

Saeed
I am Muhammad Saeed and I come from Pakistan. I am 45 years old and I live in Berlin. My asylum claim was rejected. I need medical supervision for my heart problem. I cannot sleep without a breath-support system / respirator after a half-sided paralysis that I suffered from. Without this machine I could get permanent brain damage or die from oxygen deprivation.
In my home country I am afraid to be hunted down by religious fanatics from my clan who claim that I dishonoured my family by divorcing my wife. I received many threats before I left the country.
I am kindly asking for help in my situation. I am in great fear to get deported and I just want to live without permanent fear.

The Berlin based Stop Deportation Group calls to show solidarity with Pakistani refugees and those threatened by deportation under Dublin III. Join the rally on October 22nd 2016!

In 2015, the European Union made the decision to deport thousands of Pakistani refugees to “make room” for so-called “legitimate“ migrants. Now, this policy is being implemented in German practice: Refugees from Pakistan are forced to get on the next available charter flight to Turkey. They will then be deported to Islamabad, Pakistan.

Still, it becomes quite clear in some cases of asylum procedures that German authorities simply will not conform to legal standards if these do not fit their agenda. We protest against programmatic deportation! We demand ALL asylum procedures to be carried out according to the law! Not only do Pakistanis suffer from this abuse by German authorities – back in Pakistan they are threatened by the state’s despotism and thus the possibility of imprisonment. This happens in a huge scale, unseen by the public.

Route on October 22nd, 2016:

-> U-Bhf Turmstraße to Pariser Platz (email attachment)

Join us and show your solidarity with refugees, on October 22nd, 2016! Stop Deportation!

Amir Wajihat need us now. was in the agreement attempted to suicide and is going to be deported. spread it please. #oplatz #refugees #berlin

Amir Wajihat from Pakistan attempted suicide yesterday and until now his situation is critical. He is also one of the persons who was in the Oranienplatz agreement. The police wants to deport him to Hungary! Please spread this and get the media involved.

Peaceful protest against military aggresion of India on Pakistani population at the border in Kashmir.
Bordering villages suffered of the human loss. Recently, Indian bombardment martyred and injured lot of civilians. Due to such terrible conditions, people were forced to migrate from their ‎dwelling.